adv. Obs. [f. prec. + -LY2.] According to customary or prescribed form; formally; in good form; speciously.
c. 1400. An Apology for Lollard Doctrines, 79. Þis cosynage is knowen to him, but it may not be known formably þi proue after þe court of plete.
c. 1450. Chester Pl. (Shaks. Soc.), I. 6.
| Then see that you Telers, with Cariage decente | |
| the storye of the Assention formablye doe frame, | |
| wherbye that glorious body in Cloudes most orient | |
| is taken up to the heavens with perpetuall fame. |
1479. in Eng. Gilds (1870), 416. Shal refourme and amende alle such thinges as I of my sympilnesse haue not duely ne formably executed and fulfilled.
1481. Caxton, Reynard (Arb.), 31. The foxe made his excuse so wel and formably theron that they that herde it wondred therof.
1509. Hawes, The Pastime of Pleasure, xxvii. 123.
| And in my name there is a difference, | |
| For in these wordes in my magnifycence | |
| Predestinate, and also desteny, | |
| As I shall shew anone more formably. |
